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PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908. c. B; KING.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26., 1907.

M e M CHARLES E. KING, OF RANDOLPH, KANSAS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 31, 1908.

App1ication filed June 26, 1907. Serial No. 380,888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. KING, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Randolph, in the county ofRiley and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Imrovements inPaper-Files, of which the folowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in paper files, the object of theinvention being to provide a simple, inexpensive and convenientconstruction of file wherein a pair of filing or impaling pinsisemployed in connection with an intermediate transfer pin to which thebills, letters or other papers on the filing pins may be transferred toenable any paper on either filing pin to be inspected or removed withoutdisarranging or disordering an of the other papers on the same pin.

he invention consists of a device of the character described embodyingcertain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement ofparts as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of apaper file constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is afront elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section through the base,illustrating the manner of slidably and revolubly mounting the lowerend. of the post of the transfer pin therein.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a baseboard or platewhich may be of any preferred general form and of any suitable material.Rising from this base is a pair of filin or impaling ins 2, which pinsare arrange a prescribed istance apart and are tapered or otherwiseformed at their upper ends to provide penetrating points 3, by which thepapers to be filed may be readily and conveniently impaled thereon.

Arranged equidistantly between the two filing or impaling pins 2 is acombined keeper and transfer member 4, said member comprising a verticalpost or stem 5 carrying at its upper end a laterally projecting archedor curve keeper or neck 6 formed at its free end with a conical recessor socket 7 adapted to receive the pointed end 3 of either pin,-

whereby the transfer member may be interlocked therewith. The transfermember is slidably and revolubly mounted in the base 1, and to this endthe lower end of its post 5 is arranged to swing and slide vertically ina bearing sleeve 8 fitted in a vertical assage or socket 9 formed in thebase, said sleeve terminating a suitable distance above the lower end ofsaid passage or socket. The sleeve may fit ti htly in the socket toobviate the use of aux iary fastenings, but in the form shown isprovided at its upper end with a flange 10 resting upon the uppersurface of the base and secured thereto by tacks or equivalentfastenings 11. The post 5 is limited in its downward sliding movement inthe sleeve by a collar or stop member 12 formed or provided thereon toengage the flange 10, and the lower end of the post projects below thesleeve into the lower portion of the socket and is formed with a nut orhead 13, between which and the lower end of the sleeve is arranged acoiled spring 14 encom assing the post and serving to normally hold itdepressed with the collar 12 resting on the flange 10, in which positionthe free end of the neck 6 will be held in interlocking engagement bythe action of the spring with the pointed end of the filing in withwhich it is arranged for use for t e transfer of the filed papers.

It will be understood from the foregoing description that the transfermember is adapted to be swung laterally in one direction or the otherfor use in cooperation with either one of the filing pins 2, asindicated in full and dotted lines in Fig. 2, so that the papers uponthe filing pin with which the neck 6 is engaged may be slipped upward onthe pin and onto the transfer member, thus enabling any particularletter, bill or other paper on the particular pin in question to beinspected without the necessity of removing the su erimposed letters,bills or papers from the fil and without disarranging or disordering anyof the other apers on the same pin. In Fig. 2 the transfer member isshown arranged for use in connection with the in atthe left hand end ofthe base, and it wil be apparent that in order to adjust it for use inconnection with the companion pin at the right hand end of the base itis simply neces sary to grasp the curved neck 6 and pull upward thereonagainst the resistance of the spring 14, whereby the neck will bereleased from engagementwith the first named pin, and then to swing thetransfer member to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2 so that thefree end of the neck will come above the other pin, whereupon thetransfer member will be drawn down by the action of the spring tointerlock said member with said pin, whereupon the operation of shiftingthe papers from the pin to the transfer member may be performed in themanner before described to enable any particular paper impaled upon thepinto be inspected.

From the foregolng description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing,

the construction and mode of operation of Having thus fully describedthe invention,

what is claimed as new is 2 A filing device comprlsing abase, impahngpins projecting from the base, saidbasei having an opening parallel withand midwa between said impallng pins, a sleeve eXten ing partially intosaid opening from the upper side thereof and having a flange at itsupper end bearing on the base, a transfer pin to coact with the impalingpins and having an arm mounted for revoluble and longitudinal movementin the sleeve, said arm having a bearing shoulder to engage the flangehead of'the sleeve and having a stop device at its lower end; and acoiled springin the opening of the base around the'lower: end of saidarm and bearing between the said stop device and said sleeve, for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. KINGn Witnesses:

W. V. HENSTED, J. H. RUSSELL.

